![]() ![]() Dombeck responds to questions about psychotherapy and mental health problems, from the perspective of his training in clinical psychology. I’m so scared that I’ve begun to slip into some psychotic zone here. ![]() Please, any thoughts or educated guesses you could offer would be really appreciated. I’ve finally started to feel "normal" again on most days. in recent weeks, i have improved a bit for no apparent reason. I hesitate to call them compulsions, but there is an element of that, I think. I don’t think I am capable of ever hurting anyone, but I am very disturbed by these intrusive ideas. These thoughts represent the antithesis of what I *want to be*. ![]() i feel like whatever is wrong with me preys on my greatest fears. No dreams of murderous acts or anything like that, either. I try to redirect myself, but sometimes that is of little comfort…These thoughts seem to be the product of my own mind – I’ve never had any auditory or visual hallucinations that I am aware of. I am *extremely* troubled by these dark thoughts and feelings. The idea will occur to me to kill someone I love, or a friend, or myself. In recent months since then, I’ve begun to struggle with intrusive thoughts which often involve the worst things i can imagine. I felt like i was losing control over myself. I felt like i needed to speak with someone immediately – someone to ground me. A few months ago i had a bad day, and experienced some sort of an "attack" in which i felt like i was losing my sanity slipping from my grip of reality briefly. Back to normal when i wake up in the morning. I just don’t feel "right" at such times, although I am able to function normally, just as if i were simply in a ‘bad mood’. This feeling typically comes on only in the later evening hours before bed. For many years I have occasionally felt what i would describe as a "creepy dark cloud" over me. ![]()
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